Over ** million income tax returns were filed in India in the assessment year 2024. There were over ** million taxpayers in the income group of *** thousand to *** thousand Indian rupees, the highest across all other income categories.

Over ** million income tax returns (ITRs) were filed in the assessment year 2024 in India. It was estimated to increase to over ** million in the year 2025. The number of income taxpayers has more than doubled since 2014.

This dataset contains the number of personal income taxpayers in India by tax slabs.

This Dataset contains year wise total number of Corporate Taxpayers, Share of Govt.Employees/ pensioners in Personal Tax Payers Category, Personal Tax Payers and Total Taxpayers

This statistic shows the value of total income earned by tax payers across India in the fiscal year of 2013-14, broken down by income range. For instance, the total income from tax payers who earned between 250,000 and 500,000 Indian rupees in that year amounted to about 2.6 trillion Indian rupees. The number of tax payers broken down by income range can be accessed here.

Shahrukh Khan, a Hindi film industry actor was India's leading celebrity taxpayer with a tax contribution worth *** million in the financial year 2024. Thalapathy Vijay, a Tamil film industry actor and playback singer ranked second with tax contributions worth *** million Indian rupees. He joined politics in *************.

By the financial year 2022, **** percent of the income group of up to *** thousand Indian rupees left the lower strata. There was over ***** percent growth in the income tax filing population in the group of *** thousand to *** million income.

The Bollywood actor Salman Khan ranked as the highest known tax payer across India in 2017, with advanced tax payments of *** million Indian rupees. Akshay Kumar followed suite with tax payments worth *** million rupees that year.

At the end of 2024, the number of entities liable to pay the goods and services tax in India under the "normal taxpayer" category consisted of more than 13 million taxpayers. Overall, there were over 14 million registered GST taxpayers during this time. The GST was introduced by the Indian government on July 1, 2017, as a singular indirect tax on the supply of goods and services, which replaced most of the existing indirect taxes levied in the country. GST structure While the GST is paid by consumers, it is conveyed to the government by the businesses providing the goods and services. Currently, GST has a tier tax structure of 5 percent, 12 percent, 18 percent, and 28 percent, with some exceptions for gold and real estate. Items such as food, education, and healthcare are exempt from GST. Luxury items and comfort goods are categorized under higher slabs, whereas necessities are included in lower and nil slab rates. The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) provides a single interface for taxpayers and governments. The system provides processes like registration, filing of returns, and tax payments, online. Impact on the economy GST implementation has proved to be beneficial on various fronts. These include higher revenues, uniformity in taxation, increased transparency, elimination of cascading taxes, online process, and efficient logistics and distribution system. As the GST gains wider acceptance, it is slowly leading to the formalization of the Indian economy.